Police urgently warn public not to approach wanted man
Robert Farndon has been wanted by officers since Thursday, June 26, and is believed to have been last seen in Buckingham Road in Gawcott on Friday, June 27.
The 40-year-old is a white man of slim build with long brown hair, partial facial hair and brown eyes.
He is known to frequent Bletchley, Wheatley, Buckingham and the Silverstone area.
READ MORE: Police called as man dies in city near Oxford University college
Robert Farndon. (Image: Thames Valley Police)
Thames Valley Police (TVP) officers wanted to speak to him in connection with an incident of rape and assault in June.
Since then, the force has been growing concerned for his welfare and has now released a new image.
Alongside Friday's fresh appeal, TVP has wanted the public not to approach Mr Farndon if spotted.
Detective Inspector Richard Allmond said: 'We are releasing this new image of Robert and are still urgently appealing for the public's help in locating him.
READ MORE: Armed police officers deployed as three people arrested
Help support trusted local news
Sign up for a digital subscription now: https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/subscribe/
As a digital subscriber you will get:
Unlimited access to the Oxford Mail website
Advert-light access
Reader rewards
Full access to our app
'Since he has been wanted, our officers have been working extensively to trace him.
'We believe Robert was last seen around three weeks ago in the Gawcott area and have since been growing concerned for his welfare.
'Anyone with information about Robert's whereabouts should call 101 or make a report online, quoting reference 2143 of today's date.
'If you see him, please do not approach him; instead, call 999.
'Alternatively, call independent charity Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.'
Hashtags
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
Yahoo
a few seconds ago
- Yahoo
Witnesses Say She Took Baby into Lake Michigan — Moments Later, Only the Woman Returned
NEED TO KNOW A Chicago woman has been charged with first-degree murder in connection with the death of a 1-year-old boy on Friday night Police alleged the 31-year-old woman drowned the 1-year-old boy in Lake Michigan The 1-year-old boy was pronounced dead after being rushed to a local hospitalA Chicago woman has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder after police allege she drowned a 1-year-old boy in Lake Michigan on Friday night, PEOPLE has learned. Surah Amon was arrested shortly after the alleged murder took place late Friday after witnesses called police to report seeing the 31-year-old woman in the water, according to NBC 5, CBS 2, and ABC 7. When Chicago police arrived at the scene, they discovered Amon still in the water and soon realized she had been drowning the young boy, according to reports. The Chicago Fire Department's Marine Unit took the boy out of the water, but he was pronounced dead at a local hospital shortly afterwards, according to ABC 7. Police have not confirmed what Amon's relationship was to the 1-year-old boy, according to CBS 2. Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage? Sign up for for breaking crime news, ongoing trial coverage and details of intriguing unsolved cases. According to a news release obtained by PEOPLE, Chicago police said Amon was expected to appear in court on Monday morning, where she faces one felony charge for first-degree murder and another felony charge for murder with a strong probability of death. Read the original article on People
New York Times
a few seconds ago
- New York Times
Trump Officials Blame Sanctuary Laws in Customs Officer's Shooting
Trump administration officials on Monday blamed Mayor Eric Adams and New York City's pro-immigrant laws for the shooting of an off-duty customs officer during an attempted robbery, and they warned that federal agents will flood the city in search of people who entered the United States illegally. The 42-year-old officer was sitting with a friend in a Manhattan park late Saturday night when two men rode up on a scooter, police officials said. One of the men approached the officer and revealed a firearm, and when the officer realized he was being robbed, he drew his service weapon and the two men exchanged gunfire. Later that night, the police detained Miguel Francisco Mora Nunez, 21, who had come from the Dominican Republic in 2023, as a person of interest in the shooting. On Monday, Kristi Noem, the U.S. homeland security secretary, said during a news conference in New York that a second person, Cristian Aybar Berroa, had been detained in connection with the attack. Ms. Noem said that both men were undocumented immigrants from the Dominican Republic, and police officials had said that Mr. Mora Nunez was wanted in connection with other violent crimes. 'When I look at what Mayor Adams has done to New York City, it breaks my heart to see the families that have suffered because of his policies,' Ms. Noem said. She accused Mr. Adams and mayors from other Democratic cities of 'protecting criminals who go out and murder, rape, rob.' Thomas Homan, President Trump's top border adviser, said that federal officials planned to ramp up immigrant detentions in New York and cities with so-called sanctuary policies, which usually prevent local law enforcement officers from cooperating with federal immigration authorities. Mr. Homan had made the threat before, but it has since been buttressed by an infusion of billions of dollars for immigration enforcement efforts as part of Mr. Trump's recently passed domestic policy law. 'Sanctuary cities are now our priority,' Mr. Homan said, adding that federal agents would 'flood the zone.' During a separate news conference, Mr. Adams, a Democrat who has criticized the city's sanctuary laws, was asked about Ms. Noem's comments, and he said that he was 'extremely angry' about the shooting. Mr. Adams, who is running for re-election in November, blamed the court system and state bail laws. Jessica Tisch, the police commissioner, has said there was no indication that the officer, whom the police have not named, had been targeted because he worked for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency. He is expected to recover from his injuries. The city's sanctuary laws, most of which were passed in 2014 when Bill de Blasio was mayor, strictly limit communications and cooperation between the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency and city agencies, including the Police Department and the Department of Corrections. Federal immigration officials have been especially frustrated by restrictions on whom the city will transfer from city jails to ICE custody. ICE routinely requests that local jails across the country transfer immigrants who are detained for crimes to federal custody so that they can be deported. For ICE, the transfers are an easy way to apprehend undocumented immigrants the agency deems dangerous. But Democratic leaders in sanctuary cities such as New York have argued that the transfers lead to the deportation of people who have been accused but not convicted of crimes, and that localities should not be in the business of enforcing federal immigration laws. In 2014, New York's Democrat-led City Council passed laws to bar ICE from the city's largest jail complex, on Rikers Island, and to sharply limit how jails and the police comply with transfer requests from ICE, which are known as detainer requests. Under the laws, a city agency will honor an ICE detainer request only if it is accompanied by a warrant signed by a judge and involves someone convicted of one of about 170 serious crimes, including rape and murder. The laws led city agencies to stop honoring most ICE detainer requests, largely ending the practice of transferring undocumented immigrants to ICE custody in New York City, except in certain cases. Ms. Noem said that Mr. Aybar Berroa, the second man who was arrested in connection with Saturday's shooting, entered the country illegally in 2022 and was ordered deported by an immigration judge in 2023. She said on X that Mr. Aybar Berroa had previously been arrested on charges of reckless endangerment and larceny and that an ICE detainer for him had been ignored by the Adams administration. City Hall did not immediately respond to questions about whether a detainer request had been issued for Mr. Aybar Berroa. Last year, as crimes committed by migrants received intense news coverage, Mr. Adams became one of the few Democrats in New York to speak out against the sanctuary laws. He argued that the city's inability to work with ICE threatened public safety, and he proposed changing the laws, but was resoundingly rejected by the City Council. Mr. Adams began establishing a close relationship with top Trump officials, including Mr. Homan, to find areas of collaboration on immigration issues as he hoped that the Trump administration would drop federal corruption charges against him. Unable to change the sanctuary laws without the City Council's buy-in, the Adams administration issued an executive order to allow ICE back onto Rikers Island, a priority of Mr. Homan's. But the order was temporarily blocked by a state judge after the City Council sued, frustrating the mayor and Mr. Homan. On Monday, Mr. Homan said that ICE would deploy more agents across the city — exactly the approach that sanctuary cities don't want, he said — because the agency could not access Rikers. 'We'll have more agents in New York City to look for that bad guy,' Mr. Homan said, adding, 'If we can't arrest that bad guy safely and securely in the county jail, we'll arrest him in the community.' Emma G. Fitzsimmons contributed reporting.
CNN
3 minutes ago
- CNN
Sentencing hearing set for ex-Kentucky officer convicted in Breonna Taylor raid
Policing Federal agencies Crime Gun violenceFacebookTweetLink Follow A federal judge prepared Monday afternoon to sentence an ex-Kentucky police officer convicted of using excessive force during the deadly Breonna Taylor raid, days after the US Justice Department recommended he receive no prison time in the Black woman's fatal shooting. Brett Hankison fired his weapon the night of the March 2020 botched drug raid. His shots didn't hit or injure anyone, though they flew through Taylor's walls into a neighboring apartment. The 26-year-old's death, along with the May 2020 police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, sparked racial injustice protests nationwide that year. Though the sentence could amount to several years, if US District Judge Grady Jennings heeds the Justice Department's request, it would mean none of the Louisville police officers involved in the raid would face prison time. Last week, the US Justice Department recommended no prison time for Hankison, an abrupt about-face by federal prosecutors that has angered critics after the department spent years prosecuting the former detective. The Justice Department, which has changed leadership under President Donald Trump since Hankison's conviction, said in a sentencing memo last week that 'there is no need for a prison sentence to protect the public' from Hankison. Federal prosecutors suggested time already served, which amounts to one day, and three years of supervised probation. Prosecutors at his previous federal trials aggressively pursued a conviction against Hankison, 49, arguing that he blindly fired 10 shots into Taylor's windows without identifying a target. Taylor was shot in her hallway by two other officers after her boyfriend fired from inside the apartment, striking an officer in the leg. Neither of the other officers was charged in state or federal court after prosecutors deemed they were justified in returning fire into the apartment. Louisville police used a drug warrant to enter the apartment, but found no drugs or cash inside. A separate jury deadlocked on federal charges against Hankison in 2023, and he was acquitted on state charges of wanton endangerment in 2022. In their recent sentencing memo, federal prosecutors wrote that though Hankison's 'response in these fraught circumstances was unreasonable given the benefit of hindsight, that unreasonable response did not kill or wound Breonna Taylor, her boyfriend, her neighbors, defendant's fellow officers, or anyone else.' Civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who helped Taylor's family secure a $12 million wrongful death settlement against the city of Louisville, has called the Justice Department recommendation 'an insult to the life of Breonna Taylor and a blatant betrayal of the jury's decision' and said in a social media statement that it 'sends the unmistakable message that white officers can violate the civil rights of Black Americans with near-total impunity.' A US Probation Office presentencing report said Hankison should face a range of 135 to 168 months imprisonment on the excessive force conviction, according to the memo. But federal prosecutors said multiple factors — including that Hankison's two other trials ended with no convictions — should greatly reduce the potential punishment. The memorandum was submitted by Harmeet Dhillon, chief of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division and a Trump political appointee who in May moved to cancel settlements with Louisville and Minneapolis that had called for overhauling their police departments. In the Taylor case, three other ex-Louisville police officers have been charged with crafting a falsified warrant, but have not gone to trial. None was at the scene when Taylor was shot.
